Asklemmy

For me, it’s realizing that Hollywood isn't just a dream factory, but an industry where a bunch of powerful men have historically coerced women into sex in exchange for a chance to appear in a movie.

Also, learning how the media and political elites push identity politics constantly. It feels like a deliberate attempt to get everybody fighting a culture war so that they are distracted from uniting around a class war against economic exploitation.

And probably the biggest one is foreign policy. Growing up you hear about America spreading freedom and democracy around the world. The more you learn, the more you realize it's actually about orchestrating coups, destabilizing regions, and stealing resources—all to exploit people and lower costs for corporations.

once you learn how capitalism works, you realize how much it destroys our lives, our personalities, and the world

Any subject on Last Week Tonight

our professor used the japanese internment camp case to teach us about the limits of presidential power. indiscriminately shoving people into camps was a thing the president was 100% allowed to do to us citizens. the president, the court, the congress were all like "yup sounds American to us."

How people embrace religions and the horrors they've inflicted on people in the name their religion and their god or gods.

Well my law degree did that for me. The more I learned the more I saw how truly stacked things are against the little guy.

Animal farming practices

Internet privacy and ad retargeting is a rabbit hole that the more I go down, the more I wish we never get let Big Tech normalize their methods.

Hospitals. You end up seeing a lot of serious things and it tends to make you think disease is everywhere.

Literally everything.

Looking at the ways bodily autonomy is infringed upon.

the epstein files.

Epstein island.